Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:10:38 +0000 From: "Bruce M. Simpson" <bms@FreeBSD.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org, "ru@FreeBSD.org >> Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Outstanding multipath related PR; Floating statics. Message-ID: <477CDECE.9010205@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <477C1156.9090106@elischer.org> References: <200712170740.lBH7eYaU068543@repoman.freebsd.org> <4766D6E5.1010503@FreeBSD.org> <4766E54C.30402@elischer.org> <477BBBC7.2020800@FreeBSD.org> <477C1156.9090106@elischer.org>
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Hi there,
I have been cleaning up my PRs.
The last PR I have remaining in my queue is directly related to the
multipath work you are doing:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/71474
The problem which caused Thomas to raise the PR, is that of allowing the
prefix route for 192.168.1.0/24 to float over to the other interface
which *can* reach that prefix.
Follow the code in in_rmx.c for in_ifadown() to understand why the
problem with downed interfaces happens.
Traditionally, BSD has not skipped ifnets which are marked as being down
during outbound interface selection. I'm not entirely sure why we should
even be looking at downed interfaces for that last part of next-hop
selection in the first place. Ruslan (Cc'd) suggests there are cases
where this is necessary, I can think of none.
The mere fact that the first match may be used fails to take account of
the ifnet referenced by rt_ifp being down would clobber correct path
selection behaviour for multipath.
To be sure, recursive resolution of the next-hop could solve the problem
described in the PR, at the expense of introducing unnecessary
complexity into the kernel FIB.
However, at the end of the PR I suggest a more general approach which
could be used to deal with the situation where the destination is *not*
covered by interface routes -- floating statics.
Both Cisco and Juniper implement floating statics in their FIBs, and
they would actually allow folks who unplug their cable and expect to be
able to seamlessly fail over to wireless in the most general case, by
making 0.0.0.0/0 a floating static.
cheers
BMS
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